Data Lake Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Lakes
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Lake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Lake over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 371 305
Rank change year-on-year +25 -66 +4
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 251 474 601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.67% 1.01%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.44% 3.85% 5.24%
Number of salaries quoted 137 302 335
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,779 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.63% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £86,000 £100,057 £87,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +14.29%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

Data Lake falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,614 12,321 11,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.70% 17.37% 19.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,974 8,144 6,673
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the UK excluding London

Data Lake
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Lake in the UK excluding London

Data Lake
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Lake in the UK excluding London

Data Lake
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Lake within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +101 107 £65,000 +2.36% 122
North of England -18 57 £67,500 +22.73% 50
Midlands +38 50 £52,500 -8.70% 24
Yorkshire +55 27 £71,991 +6.65% 17
West Midlands +34 27 £61,250 +6.52% 18
East Midlands +29 23 £48,500 +2.11% 4
North West -48 18 £67,500 +50.00% 24
South West +68 13 £70,000 -0.82% 20
East of England +41 13 £70,000 +21.74% 5
North East +41 12 £62,779 -16.30% 11
Scotland +34 7 £85,000 +27.82% 15
Wales +34 4 £80,000 +73.42% 2
Data Lake
UK

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 26 (10.36%) SharePoint
2 15 (5.98%) Apache Spark
3 10 (3.98%) Apache
4 4 (1.59%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.40%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (4.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.39%) Infor M3
2 4 (1.59%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 171 (68.13%) Azure
2 98 (39.04%) Power Platform
3 77 (30.68%) AWS
4 41 (16.33%) Power Automate
5 32 (12.75%) GCP
6 31 (12.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 30 (11.95%) Snowflake
8 29 (11.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 28 (11.16%) PowerApps
10 23 (9.16%) Amazon S3
10 23 (9.16%) SaaS
11 21 (8.37%) Serverless
12 18 (7.17%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (7.17%) IaaS
12 18 (7.17%) PaaS
13 16 (6.37%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 15 (5.98%) Azure Monitor
14 15 (5.98%) Azure Service Bus
14 15 (5.98%) Entra ID
15 14 (5.58%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.37%) DNS
2 14 (5.58%) Firewall
2 14 (5.58%) SD-WAN
2 14 (5.58%) VPN
2 14 (5.58%) WAN
3 4 (1.59%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (38.65%) Power BI
2 91 (36.25%) Data Warehouse
3 52 (20.72%) Big Data
4 35 (13.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 35 (13.94%) Tableau
5 31 (12.35%) SQL Server
6 29 (11.55%) Metadata
7 20 (7.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 14 (5.58%) MySQL
8 14 (5.58%) NoSQL
9 11 (4.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (3.98%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (3.98%) Relational Database
11 6 (2.39%) Hadoop
11 6 (2.39%) Parquet
12 5 (1.99%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.99%) RDBMS
13 4 (1.59%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (1.59%) Power Query
13 4 (1.59%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 19 (7.57%) Git
2 8 (3.19%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.20%) GitLab
3 3 (1.20%) Subversion
4 2 (0.80%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.40%) ERwin
5 1 (0.40%) ESLint
5 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.40%) JIRA
5 1 (0.40%) MLflow
5 1 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.40%) Sinon.JS
5 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 96 (38.25%) Law
2 67 (26.69%) Social Skills
3 46 (18.33%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (17.93%) Finance
5 22 (8.76%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (4.78%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.98%) Manufacturing
7 10 (3.98%) Retail
8 9 (3.59%) Banking
9 4 (1.59%) Advertising
9 4 (1.59%) Back Office
9 4 (1.59%) Marketing
10 3 (1.20%) Legal
11 2 (0.80%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.40%) Billing
12 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.40%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 67 (26.69%) Senior
2 65 (25.90%) Lead
3 51 (20.32%) Architect
4 45 (17.93%) Data Engineer
5 23 (9.16%) Senior Data Engineer
6 21 (8.37%) Analyst
7 19 (7.57%) Solutions Architect
8 17 (6.77%) Cloud Architect
8 17 (6.77%) Data Architect
9 15 (5.98%) Developer
10 12 (4.78%) DBA
11 10 (3.98%) Product Owner
11 10 (3.98%) SQL DBA
12 9 (3.59%) Administrator
12 9 (3.59%) Data Analyst
13 7 (2.79%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 7 (2.79%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 6 (2.39%) Azure Data Engineer
14 6 (2.39%) Azure Engineer
14 6 (2.39%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.77%) PySpark
2 8 (3.19%) Kafka
2 8 (3.19%) REST
3 7 (2.79%) EDI
4 5 (1.99%) .NET
5 4 (1.59%) AWS CDK
5 4 (1.59%) Pandas
6 2 (0.80%) J2EE
6 2 (0.80%) JSON
6 2 (0.80%) RESTful
6 2 (0.80%) Spring
7 1 (0.40%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.40%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (0.40%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (0.40%) CSS
7 1 (0.40%) D3.js
7 1 (0.40%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.40%) Highcharts JS
7 1 (0.40%) pydantic
7 1 (0.40%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.16%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.58%) Data Centre
2 14 (5.58%) Data Structures
2 14 (5.58%) NHS
3 13 (5.18%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (3.98%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.19%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.39%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (1.99%) Reference Data
8 4 (1.59%) Equities
8 4 (1.59%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.20%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.20%) Data Fabric
9 3 (1.20%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.20%) IoT
9 3 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.40%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.40%) FMCG
11 1 (0.40%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (70.52%) Analytics
2 128 (51.00%) Business Intelligence
3 91 (36.25%) ETL
4 83 (33.07%) Data Engineering
5 82 (32.67%) Data Architecture
6 79 (31.47%) Data Governance
7 76 (30.28%) Data Modelling
8 65 (25.90%) Roadmaps
9 64 (25.50%) Data Pipeline
9 64 (25.50%) Data Strategy
10 62 (24.70%) Data Management
10 62 (24.70%) Data Science
11 60 (23.90%) Mentoring
11 60 (23.90%) Stakeholder Management
12 57 (22.71%) Agile
13 53 (21.12%) Data Analysis
14 50 (19.92%) Data Analytics
14 50 (19.92%) Data Integration
15 45 (17.93%) Computer Science
15 45 (17.93%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 143 (56.97%) SQL
2 77 (30.68%) Python
3 22 (8.76%) T-SQL
4 19 (7.57%) PowerShell
5 14 (5.58%) Bicep
5 14 (5.58%) Java
6 10 (3.98%) R
7 6 (2.39%) C#
7 6 (2.39%) Scala
8 5 (1.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.59%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.59%) VB.NET
9 4 (1.59%) X++
10 3 (1.20%) Julia
10 3 (1.20%) VBA
11 2 (0.80%) Ruby
12 1 (0.40%) F#
12 1 (0.40%) Haskell
12 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.40%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 75 (29.88%) Degree
2 24 (9.56%) Azure Certification
3 15 (5.98%) DBS Check
4 9 (3.59%) Security Cleared
5 8 (3.19%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.39%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.20%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.20%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.80%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.40%) MBA
9 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.40%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (35.06%) Data Quality
2 32 (12.75%) Accessibility
3 28 (11.16%) QA
4 7 (2.79%) GDPR
5 6 (2.39%) GxP
6 3 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.80%) SEPA
7 2 (0.80%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.40%) Solvency II
System Software
1 16 (6.37%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (3.59%) Docker
3 3 (1.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (5.58%) Single Sign-On
2 10 (3.98%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.59%) Terraform
4 3 (1.20%) Ansible
4 3 (1.20%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.80%) Grafana
5 2 (0.80%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.40%) SCCM
Vendors
1 86 (34.26%) Microsoft
2 59 (23.51%) Databricks
3 26 (10.36%) ServiceNow
4 16 (6.37%) SAP
5 14 (5.58%) Meraki
6 10 (3.98%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.39%) Infor
8 5 (1.99%) Google
8 5 (1.99%) Oracle
9 4 (1.59%) Bloomberg
9 4 (1.59%) Cloudera
9 4 (1.59%) Nimble Storage
9 4 (1.59%) Reuters
10 3 (1.20%) Informatica
11 2 (0.80%) Dataiku
11 2 (0.80%) MapR
12 1 (0.40%) Blue Prism
12 1 (0.40%) Facebook
12 1 (0.40%) HubSpot
12 1 (0.40%) UiPath